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Originally Posted by Malbjey
People can ABSOLUTELY adapt to filling their EV to 80% (versus 100%). I can't believe some of you are making the argument Americans are too stupid to understand or quickly learn this. Come on.
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Nobody is saying people are too stupid... actually they might be, but nobody is saying that here.
The point is that if you tell the average person they should only fill their battery to 80% they are going to think that is dumb. And rightly so.
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We already deal with whether or not our cars should use 87, 89, 91 or 93 gas, or diesel. Should that be standardized too because some people are too dumb to read the manual?
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Do you really think
anybody reads the manual?
Somebody tells Nurse Nancy what grade gas to put in her car and she does that no problem. Now tell her she should only fill her tank to 80% and she'll be like
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We already have dealt with an explosion of touch screen infotainment systems over the past 10 to 15 years. Guess what? We adapted for that too. We weren't too stupid to understand how to touch a screen to change a radio station versus using a dial or button. Not to mention how every manufacturer has a different infotainment setup. So if you buy a Chevy, the system is completely different from the Ford you came from. We adapt to that too.
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I am highly confident there is only a small percentage of people who know anything about their infotainment system beyond the bare minimum to make it kind of do what they want. And to further that point, even professional car reviewers routinely complain about the complexity and awkwardness of some systems. So if you're using that as an example of how manufacturers can add stupid, needless complexity to a vehicle and people will adapt, it's a bad one.
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You guys saying people are too dumb for 80% charging are just nitpicking or you really have a terrible opinion of your fellow Americans intelligence.
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Although it may well be true, no one here said people are too dumb for that. But for sure the dumb ones are the people who build things and then put goofy rules on its use. Rules that most people are going to think don't make much sense.